THE BELKO EXPERIMENT is a really exciting little B-movie action/horror film with a premise that shamelessly copies that of BATTLE ROYALE and sets it in an office building instead of an island. A bunch of ordinary workers are tasked with killing each other by a bland and faceless corporation as part of a social experiment. There's little originality here, but a ton of endlessly violent scenes which are well-shot by Greg McLean, the director of WOLF CREEK, and written by James Gunn, the man behind SLITHER and GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY. There's a huge tableau of mixed characters to get to know and watching their characters react to the violence in different ways is interesting, but this is mainly about suspense, shocks, and a whole variety of murderous mayhem. Tony Goldwyn, John C. McGinley and Michael Rooker are perfect as the older cast members but the younger actors are just as good here and the whole thing is thoroughly entertaining, if derivative.
Review of The Belko Experiment
